Sure, better chance than any, but you're going overkill for not a lot of gain.

32GB of ram.. no. Save yourself $260 and at least drop to 16gb.. Unless you like to churn out drawings in autocad whilst you photoshop, listen to music, have 15 browsers open and playing Guild Wars 2, I hardly seeing you exceed even 8gb of ram.

i7-3820? Why? You could spend more or less $1000 less and achieve barely any worse performance.

I have a first gen cheapass Core i5 (750) on 4gb ram with a GTX670. I run GW2 on max settings.

As others have said, that's some serious overkill.

Now if you ask "Can this play GW2 super-smooth at 200fps+ in WvW at 1080p res" then you need to slap another $1K onto it. And yet another $1K if you actually want a monitor or two good enough to warrant such a setup.

Now if you ask "Can this play GW2 super-smooth at 200fps+ in WvW at 1080p res" then you need to slap another $1K onto it. And yet another $1K if you actually want a monitor or two good enough to warrant such a setup.

WvW will slow down to a crawl no matter what righ you have in intense zergs. Okay, not necessarily to a crawl, but i have yet to see a rig pass the ~30fps mark in huge WvW zergs.

WvW will slow down to a crawl no matter what righ you have in intense zergs. Okay, not necessarily to a crawl, but i have yet to see a rig pass the ~30fps mark in huge WvW zergs.

I am in the process of upgrading my pc atm. Right now I have: fx 8350, radeon 6850, 8 gb ram, asrock 970, 630w psu. I play on high (or else I get a gpu bottleneck) and the lowest I have ever dipped was to 19 fps in wvwvw during the Halloween festival... This is with everything at stock. Now, once Christmas rolls around and I get my mobo and ram, and slap in my new gpu (waiting till Christmas to put it all together, I have already purchased my gpu), I suspect those number will increase even when playing on ultra. My new set up will be: fx 8350, radeon 7950, 16 gb ram, asrock fatal1ty professional, 630w psu. With a slight oc to the fx 8350, maybe up to 4.4 ghz, I should never dip below 23-25 on ultra with a higher res.... amd ftw

WvW will slow down to a crawl no matter what righ you have in intense zergs. Okay, not necessarily to a crawl, but i have yet to see a rig pass the ~30fps mark in huge WvW zergs.

It's possible, but, lol, GL affording the setup to do it. Also, you have to use all sorts of workarounds to make it so that the crap client decides it's ok to use hardware effectively. Once you offload GW2 across 20+ cores, things smooth out, lol

Actually he will still have ~15-20 FPS in big wvwvw zerg fights with his GPU running at 10% load only

konawolv, on 27 November 2012 - 12:00 AM, said:

I am in the process of upgrading my pc atm. Right now I have: fx 8350, radeon 6850, 8 gb ram, asrock 970, 630w psu. I play on high (or else I get a gpu bottleneck) and the lowest I have ever dipped was to 19 fps in wvwvw during the Halloween festival... This is with everything at stock. Now, once Christmas rolls around and I get my mobo and ram, and slap in my new gpu (waiting till Christmas to put it all together, I have already purchased my gpu), I suspect those number will increase even when playing on ultra. My new set up will be: fx 8350, radeon 7950, 16 gb ram, asrock fatal1ty professional, 630w psu. With a slight oc to the fx 8350, maybe up to 4.4 ghz, I should never dip below 23-25 on ultra with a higher res.... amd ftw

i find it hard to believe or you weren't in huge zerg ever

dawdler, on 26 November 2012 - 04:29 PM, said:

I have a first gen cheapass Core i5 (750) on 4gb ram with a GTX670. I run GW2 on max settings.

As others have said, that's some serious overkill.

Now if you ask "Can this play GW2 super-smooth at 200fps+ in WvW at 1080p res" then you need to slap another $1K onto it. And yet another $1K if you actually want a monitor or two good enough to warrant such a setup.

I got a little better setup and i don't see it as overkill until GW2 actually makes a right use of it. Reflections don't use GPU at all yet eat away ~10 FPS for watever reason.